Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average history textbook, for instance, "which so often determines the tone of classroom instruction, is chiefly a recital of facts . . . objective, noncontroversial, a record of events. It recounts what happened . . . but often fails to ask why it happened [or] what the meaning is . . . This gets into the realm of opinion, and in this scientific age scholarship and instruction shun the speculative . . . The real issues are frequently sidestepped because no scientific proof is possible...
Miss Margaret Clapp, president of Wellesley, issued the following statement yesterday concerning McCarran's report: "We know of us Communist unit on the campus . . . and we are satisfied that us member of the Wellesler faculty has used his classroom or his opportunity to know students for the purposes of indoctrinating Communist Party principles...
Columinist Walter Winchell last night rapped Arthur D. Schlestuger Jr. '37, associate professor of History, for his conviction that Communists should be allowed to teach in universities, so long as they do not disqualify themselves by intellectual distortions in the classroom...
Seminar (Sat. 6:30 p.m., ABC). Classroom discussion of St. Augustine's City of God and Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion...
Pearls will be worn--not only for social functions, but to dress up a sweater and skirt for classroom wear. What's more, the sweater will fit. The untidy, form-concealing pullover is as passe as the high-button shoe. The skirt may be one of the magic orions, which never lost their pleats. And no sneakers...